Category : Fellows
Nov 14, 2018 | Announcements, Arts Program, Fellows, In Region, India, India Seminar Series, News
Kabi Raj Lama is a Nepal-based artist and former Visiting Artist Fellow (VAF) at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. The VAF Program enables South Asia-based artists to spend a substantial period of time at Harvard,...
Nov 14, 2018 | Announcements, Fellows, India, News
The Mittal Institute’s Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian South Asia Visiting Fellow for 2017/18, Dr. Raile Rocky Ziipao, has published a new paper in Strategic Analysis Journal, entitled ‘Look/Act East Policy, Roads and Market...
Oct 25, 2018 | Announcements, Arts Program, Fellows, News
Aman Kaleem’s work is personal. Her best-known film, Shaadi, Sex Aur Parivaar (Marriage, Sex and Family) contains significant autobiographical elements, she says, often drawing from the lived experience of a single woman in India. In the documentary, three...
Sep 13, 2018 | Announcements, Fellows, News
“It’s a big leap for me, personally and professionally, and the fellowship was unexpected. But in the first few days here, I have already felt the exciting academic and intellectual atmosphere. The issues that I touch upon in my own work are very much global in nature. There is a lot to learn from other parts of the world. I can listen, share my ideas and fully participate in the academic exchange.”
Aug 16, 2018 | Announcements, Arts Program, Fellows, In Region, News, Pakistan, Partition
2018 Visiting Artist Imran Channa is a contemporary artist from Pakistan. His art practice interrogates the intersection between power and knowledge. Channa’s primary focus is on the documentation and dissemination of historical narratives and events. He explores how fabricated narratives can override our collective memory to shape individual and social consciousness and alter human responses. In this interview, we discuss how he first became interested in installation artwork and the benefits of making art abroad.
Jun 18, 2018 | Announcements, Fellows, In Region, India
Mittal Institute Fellow Raile Rocky Ziipao discusses the case of the People’s Road, in which the community funded and built 100 km of road in Northeast India where the State had failed for decades.
Mar 22, 2018 | Announcements, Bangladesh, Fellows
Former visiting fellow Hasna Moudud discusses her work, methodology, and travels through Mongolia along the Silk Road.
Jan 16, 2018 | Announcements, Fellows
The deadlines for the 2018-2019 Aman Fellowship, Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian South Asia Visiting Fellowship and Babar Ali Fellowship are March 6, 2018.
Apr 10, 2017 | Announcements, B4 Program, Fellows, In Region, India, News, South Asia in the News
The B4 Fellows explain how this program has helped their careers and research.
Mar 21, 2017 | Arts Program, Community, Fellows, News
By Meghan Smith, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, SAI Sometimes, to shatter the glass ceiling, you need a weapon. Rachel Parikh has plenty at her fingertips – and she wants to use them to break more than a few glass ceilings. As the Calderwood Curatorial...
Mar 16, 2017 | Fellows, India, Nepal, News
SAI is pleased to announce our Visiting Artists for the Spring semester, who will be at Harvard from March 20 – 31. During their time at Harvard, the artists will display their work on campus, meet with students, attend courses, and give a public seminar. Check back...
Feb 23, 2017 | Announcements, Community, Fellows, India
The new report is based on the ‘Exchanging Health Information’ seminar held at the Radcliffe Institute in 2016.